Africa . BECHUANA WOMEN PREPARING WINTER STORES. Like the Kafirs proper, the Bechuanas have no senseof honour where they have remained unaffected bycivilising influences, and they are even still more craftythan their eastern kinsmen. But with this cunning iscombined a certain good-nature, so that we feel itimpossible to be angry with them for their consummateimpudence. Like the other tribes they are fond ofjovial society, often sitting for hours together amusing. TOILET OF A BEUHUAXA BELLE. To face jmge 450. THE SOUTHERN BANTU TRIBES. 451 themselves with harmless jokes and in
Africa . BECHUANA WOMEN PREPARING WINTER STORES. Like the Kafirs proper, the Bechuanas have no senseof honour where they have remained unaffected bycivilising influences, and they are even still more craftythan their eastern kinsmen. But with this cunning iscombined a certain good-nature, so that we feel itimpossible to be angry with them for their consummateimpudence. Like the other tribes they are fond ofjovial society, often sitting for hours together amusing. TOILET OF A BEUHUAXA BELLE. To face jmge 450. THE SOUTHERN BANTU TRIBES. 451 themselves with harmless jokes and indifference to the more serious concerns of lifeis also apparent in their views of a future state, and intheir less sinister ideas on the subject of no doubt, like others, believe firmly in witches andsorcery, and have their Nyaka, or their fanaticism rarely reaches the fearful height it
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